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left my liquid wax out in the garage now its frozen. is it now ruined?? it says on the bottle keep from freezing.
 
trhland said:
left my liquid wax out in the garage now its frozen. is it now ruined?? it says on the bottle keep from freezing.
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It's safe to say so :(. If you live in the cold, I would HIGHLY recommend bringing in all waxes; liquid and paste.

I believe I read a while back, that freezing of the wax ruins it in some form or something.





-Nick
 
liquid carnuba spray wax from pro
 
I sure hope you havent thrown it away yet. It can be saved. (trust me i have alot of provducts freeze and very few have any ill effects). I would let it thaw and give it a good shaking (the wax will seperate like salade dressing). Just give it a good shanking to make sure it all mixed up and you will have no problems... i run into this problem alot. So dont worry
 
trhland said:
liquid carnuba spray wax from pro
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I live in FL, and don't ever encounter a problem like this, but I have read a few threads, and frozen wax is a no-no.

Other products, could be frozen, and left to thaw, but they don't have the ingredients wax does.

I will try and find the thread that I was reading from....






-Nick
 
Al-53 said:
you should be ok...just when it warms up shake it up good..in case they separated some...the worse products to freeze are polishes and LSP sealants...some times they separate and will not re mix...they curdle and never re mix....I left a bottle of Mothers Top Coat in the garage last winter and it froze..come spring I seen it..opened it..was like cottage cheese....was toast..junk...

but shake the bottle up as soon as it warms up..should be fine....

Al
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FloridaNative said:
Okay. I confess that I wanted to know the answer to this question as well so I called Meguiar's for you. :p I spoke with Tim and he told me that he strongly recommends that you contact the company you bought it from because there is a risk of it "going bad" as he put it. He said it's not good that any of their products freeze.
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Nica said:
FloridaNative your quite the gall aren't you, very nice of you to make the call. I too worry about products freezing, so far everything I have ordered has arrived here extremely cold not frozen though. I was told by a pro autobody dealership that if you recieve anything frozen (specially compund products) to contact the place you got it from because most of the times they should not be freezing and if they do the chemical blend is now lost. Well at least that is all I remember.

All I remember frozen products is not a good thing.
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Al-53 said:
Alot of car care products state..do not let freeze or keep above a certain temp..reason being they can change chemically

There was a post on Detail City on this also..and Steve chimed in ..but i can not get the City to load today..I was going to copy what was said...

also a good practice...during the winter when your products are idle from not being used...pay them a visit and give them a shake up..to keep them in a mixed form...never hurts to do so...

Al
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Can be seen here: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/detailing-forum/3977-ups-came-today-but-one-item-frozen.html



If it were me, I'd toss it, and pick up someting else. Pinnacle CM is BOGOF!!! I got myself two.. That's like saving $20 or more!





Hope this helps...




-Nick
 
i called the pro company that i bought it from and they said it will be perfectly fine just give it a good shake .
 
CalgaryDetail said:
I sure hope you havent thrown it away yet. It can be saved. (trust me i have alot of provducts freeze and very few have any ill effects). I would let it thaw and give it a good shaking (the wax will seperate like salade dressing). Just give it a good shanking to make sure it all mixed up and you will have no problems... i run into this problem alot. So dont worry
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THANKS!!!
 
thanks guys . pro said it should be fine .i said to them that it says on the bottle keep from freezing . and they said that it says that manly so if it freezes really bad it could exspand the bottle and leak that s all. .its more for 5 gal containers not to freez because they really expand and could pop! so hopefully we should be ok.
 
you should probably nestle it under your bossom and allow it to warm naturally. After all carnuabas are natural !! (hehehe)
 
i took the wax gave it a big hug told it i was sorry for letting it freeze then i put her next to the heater . now shes all better.:D
 
trhland said:
i took the wax gave it a big hug told it i was sorry for letting it freeze then i put her next to the heater . now shes all better.:D
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yet she will still make you sleep on the couch..........


ok now im in trouble
 
Give it a good shake and you will be fine. How bad was it frozen? All ice, or was it like ICEE?Im the MAN :p
 
trhland said:
thanks guys . pro said it should be fine .i said to them that it says on the bottle keep from freezing . and they said that it says that manly so if it freezes really bad it could exspand the bottle and leak that s all. .its more for 5 gal containers not to freez because they really expand and could pop! so hopefully we should be ok.
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Really, this is interesting. Question though, how do you know it's bad? The pro said to you that it "should" be fine....so how do you know it's not fine? Does it change color? Is it more translucent? Just thought I'd ask because I was under the impression that freezing any liquid polish and wax was bad because it separates the chemicals and even though you can shake it the chemicals do not blend properly? Well like I said just asking.
 
Nica said:
Really, this is interesting. Question though, how do you know it's bad? The pro said to you that it "should" be fine....so how do you know it's not fine? Does it change color? Is it more translucent? Just thought I'd ask because I was under the impression that freezing any liquid polish and wax was bad because it separates the chemicals and even though you can shake it the chemicals do not blend properly? Well like I said just asking.
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the sprya wax looks fine to me this morning it didnt seperate at all. the dealer told me they do feeze tests are there products to check them and its fine . and it looks ok too didnt change color.
 
Cool, as long as it works that's all that matters. Thanks for sharing.
 
So I screwed up and left a $50 bottle of 3M ultafine polish outside in freezing temps for a few weeks. The polish is now thawed, but it is separated and watery. I started Googling and came across this post. It gave me hope that others said to just shake it up, but after 5 minutes of shaking it just wasn't doing the trick. So... I decided to bust out a cheap blender we have in the kitchen. (Wife was not home.) Figured if a $10 blender could save a $50 bottle of polish it would be worth it. The blender worked perfect to mix the polish back to its original creamy consistency and only took a few seconds. From there I poured and spatulaed the polish into a plastic bag. Snipped the corner of the bag and squeezed the polish back into the bottle. Something to try anyway if shaking isn't cutting it. The polish works as good now as the first day I bought it.
 
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